Of ’sole representatives’
Two news reports - one good, the other scary - caught my attention today. The latter honestly gave me a mini heart attack. Asian Tribune posted a story on the ‘Acquisition of nerve gas and other lethal chemical weapons by the LTTE‘. Excerpts that stood out for me:
Eastern sources which revealed this information to “Asian Tribune” and has now confirmed that this special task force is in possession of chemical weapons with instructions from the LTTE leader to use these weapons only against Karuna cadres. This specific instruction was given to the cadres, because the foreign power which provided these chemical weapons to the LTTE has reportedly obtained from the Sri Lankan rebels an assurance that they should not use these weapons against the Sri Lankan Armed Forces.
And then this:
There are suspicions that a West European country closely aligned with the LTTE and which espouses LTTE’s causes may be the offender. This West European country, it is said, might have provided these chemical and other modern weapons to the LTTE via another East European country under a bi-lateral agreement with that country with special secret instructions for onward shipment to the Vanni based Sri Lankan terrorist organisation.
I haven’t seen this covered in the local print media, so I don’t know whether this is journalistic excellence on the part of Asia Tribune or simple fear-mongering. Either way, I was, and am still, very concerned. I like to hear the everyone’s thoughts as well.
If anyone has come across any mention of this in other media channels, please be kind enough to mention the source. A link would be great too.
At the other end of the spectrum is this piece of news on Lankannewspapers.com.
Apparently a group of people representing ex-pat Tamils in UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada Denmark and Norway have called for the total ban of the LTTE in Europe. In addition - and this is the part that I love - they’ve rejected the LTTE’s claim as the ’sole representative of the Tamil people’.
Being a Tamil myself, I’ve heard tales of ex-pats being asked to ‘contribute’ for the ‘Tamil cause’. The ones who don’t are blacklisted and will endure the wrath of the respective LTTE body in that country.
Yep. Apparently that is how you become a sole representative of a demographic.
My heart rejoices in the knowledge that there are people who still stand up for their rights instead of being brainwashed sheep.
I applaud you good sirs.
